Three habits
Read the live preview between prompts
Never prompt from memory. Open the preview, see what’s there, then write.
One change at a time
Five small prompts beat one big one.
Verify before moving on
Click around. Confirm the change is what you wanted, and that it didn’t break anything else.
When you’re stuck
Re-prompted twice; result still wrong
Re-prompted twice; result still wrong
Switch to Plan mode for the next attempt. The plan reveals the misread.
Agent keeps over-editing
Agent keeps over-editing
Add explicit constraints (“don’t change anything outside
components/Tasks/”).Same correction repeated three times
Same correction repeated three times
Add it to custom instructions. One-time setup; works on every future prompt.
Related
Building → iterating
The operational view.
Debugging prompts
What to do when the result misses.
Common mistakes
Patterns to avoid.